• Fresh coaches, bought and sold! Amid speculation he might leave for the Pitt job, Paul Rhoads has re-upped with Iowa State. Reportedly out of the Akron and Southern Miss coaching searches, respectively: Pat Narduzzi and Kirby Smart. And take a minute today to read about the effect outgoing Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker had on one former player. And Gary Crowton will do ... something ... at Maryland.

• Penn State things: Tim Curley and Gary Schulz will stand trial on charges they lied to a grand jury in the Jerry Sandusky investigation. In team news, a locker room scuffle between starting quarterback Matt McGloin and wide receiver Curtis Drake sent McGloin to the hospital. He was released following tests and is present with the team today, but has not been cleared to practice.

• Home for the ruptured: Eric LeGrand, sitting up unaided, continues to make some of the best football news of the season. Not so sunny: the prognosis for Chris Owusu's career.